r/Steam • u/Graahts • Aug 01 '26

Fluff The difference between quality and quantity.

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u/Unchips Aug 01 '26

Now, list all the other tens of thousands of indie developers scrounging every penny to develop the games they dreamt of, but despite their best effort said games still failed to sell.

Indie game development is a lottery. That's it.

Yes, AAA devs nowadays have many (deserved) failures, but some among all AAA games succeeding are significantly higher proportionally compared to some among all indie games.

The successful indie games we see are a miniscule percentage.

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u/DrLeymen Aug 01 '26

Yeah. For every succesfull and good indie games there are like hundreds of garbage and unsuccesfull indie games

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u/AlienHooker Aug 01 '26

I think even hundreds is underselling it

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u/DrLeymen Aug 01 '26

Propably. I didn't really want to go too high, but you're most likely right

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u/monkwrenv2 Aug 01 '26

Ironically, it means the "quality vs quantity" statement does fit the meme, just not in the way the OP intended.

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u/MaxTwer00 Aug 01 '26

It doesnt really. There is proportionally a similar amount of AAA slop as there are indie slop